She's got it, and how.... There is no denying that fact. If we had to pick the model of the moment, yes, it would be Katrina Kaif - her ramp sway intact, her presence at the recently concluded Fashion Week, wolf whistle perfect, grabbing attention each time that she touched her pretty toe to the ramp, mostly in show-stopper attire, calculated to deliver a larger than life statement on the designer. She was Fashion Week's hottest presence, the designers' hottest property. Add to that, beau and Bollywood superstar, Salman Khan's unabashed applause from the front rows, at her shows. This is fashion hyperbole at its best. Though, in our opinion, it really did not need the endorsement of a superstar to establish Kaif as the only supermodel sashaying the ramp, today.

With truely cinematic paradox, contrast this, soon after, with front-page photographs, in the dailies, of a downcast, salwar-clad Kaif (she is almost more appealing in subdued attire as at her supercharged fashion appearances), awaiting Khan's release from Jodhpur Central Jail after his conviction in a poaching case, an image that the entire country sympathised with. And while her newly-released film, Humko Deewana Kar Gaye, where she appears for the first time in a leading role, can be relegated to inane hogwash, she has established some actor presence. Yes, Kaif is the woman of the moment, in more ways than one.

She arrives for the Verve shoot in street attire - muti-pocketed trousers and a cool tank top, stepping out from her dark-windowed, chauffeur-driven Honda SUV, looking very much the clean-faced, bright, pony-tailed, college-going kid. At five feet, six and a half inches, she is taller than you would have thought, though she brushes this observation away with a quick glance at her wedge heels that she never takes off for the rest of the day. She is certainly more breasty and hippy than the ramp reveals and than the average model, perhaps - ensconced in a perfect, real-life hour glass, the silhouette of the moment. Rounded is good and she carries off rounded to perfection. She is a strapping young lady, her big boned structure almost belying the gentle angles of her near angelic face. Tall enough to make ramp model, curvy enough to give Bollywood enough to hold on to - the face that has launched a myriad products is now poised to reposition herself, to make it Bollywood-big. And yet, for now, her biggest strength is that she remains the leading lady of the ramp.